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Two comments about "prior art":

- This reminds me of plantuml and mermaid: how do you see yourself as different? Is it the reactive display of contents as you type?

- Naming-wise: I'm curious - are you aware that in some places "Gleek" means to spit by directly squeezing your salivary glands?

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yes, the tool is partly based on the mermaid, we use our own syntax that we consider more simple + features build on top of it like diagram saving, git repository integration, exporting options, link sharing, support, etc.

you are right. i am aware that name is somewhat controversial. in a way, you type quickly your diagram and gleek.io spits it out :-)

I Love the idea of these but I feel like we need much better pathing before medium-or-larger diagrams are presentable. Anything not trivial in nature ends up with fairly ugly and unintuitive layout that requires correction.

Maybe a job for ML

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